{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Enron's Arthur Andersen Problem: When Auditors Enable Fraud","description":"Arthur Andersen was supposed to be the firm that never blinked. But inside Enron’s rise, the watchdog was getting too close to the kennel. And once the questions started, the paper trail would become the real battleground.\r\n\r\nBy the time Enron became a scandal, Arthur Andersen had already spent nearly a century building a reputation for restraint. The firm began in nineteen thirteen in Chicago with a simple promise: audits should be independent, skeptical, and boring. That was the point. Numbers were supposed to be trusted because the auditor had no reason to flatter the client. But by the early two thousands, that ideal had been bent by size, money, and ambition. Andersen was one of the Big Five accounting firms, and it had become more than an auditor. It was also a business adviser with a sprawling consulting culture.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 33 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/arthur-andersen","author_name":"The Archive Network"}